“ If the airline industry was able to demonstrate the same level of efficiency as the data centre sector , it would mean a 747 would be able to fly from New York to London on just 2.8 litres of fuel in around eight minutes ”
— Brian Johnson , ABB
crash in 2001 , less than 7 % of the world ’ s population had access to the internet . By 2017 , 50 % of the global population was online and , by 2023 , more than 5.3bn people around the world , representing 66 % of humanity , will have access to the internet .
People aren ’ t the only things connecting to the internet in droves , however . In two years time , the number of devices connected to IP networks will amount to more than triple the global population . While this trend is being partially driven by increased penetration of smartphones , tablets and personal computers in developing markets , the soaring number of internet connected devices is primarily due to an explosion of the Internet of Things ( IoT ). From smart water metres and industrial temperature gauges to connected doorbells and home hub refrigerators , this will be the decade when every surface , object and piece of infrastructure in our cities becomes an interface with the digital world . As these machines act more and more autonomously , the way in which information is produced will radically change . Machine to machine ( M2M ) connections will account for half of the global connected devices and connections by 2023 , up from 33 % in 2018 .
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